Muffins are a great thing to bake with little chefs. There are loads of fun steps they can get involved with – from measuring and mixing, to spooning the mixture into the cases. The kids loved how much these rose in the oven, and we all enjoyed eating the chocolatey deliciousness of course!

Method

Preheat your oven to 200C and prepare a muffin tin

Get your toddler to line a muffin tin with cases or grease every corner of it with oil and butter if you have no cases to make sure the muffins don’t stick.

Mix the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients

Get your child to help you add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients bowl and mix it together just enough so you can’t see any more flour. It’ll still be a little lumpy but that’s fine.

Bake the chocolate muffins

Spoon your mixture into your muffin tin/cases. If you let your kids help with this step be prepared for a bit of mess! I let the kids half fill up the cases then finished it off myself so there was an even amount in each muffin.

Bake in the oven for about 20 minutes. They’re ready when a toothpick or skewer poked into the centre comes out clean.

Leave to cool in the tin for 10 minutes before removing and leaving on a wire rack to cool completely.

1 Comment

Ooh yum! You can’t beat a good chocolate muffin – these look glorious Helen and your children look to have had a lot of fun making (& no doubt eating) them 🙂 Thankyou for sharing with #BakingCrumbs (ps, don’t forget to display the #BakingCrumbs badge so that it helps to spread to word of the linky),
Angela x